Category: Curricular & Enrollment Pro Tips

Managing your Wait List

Happy Peak Enrollment Season! If your subject(s) have courses that utilize a wait list, be sure to review your own procedures for allowing student enrollment. Here are some additional considerations: For Curric/Enroll Reps managing a wait list:  For students who are enrolling: 

Scheduling Evening Midterm Exams

Per faculty policy, two evening examination periods have been established for daytime classes that require exams outside of their regularly scheduled class hours. Evening midterms may not spill into the transition time of 7:15 to 7:30 PM. Curricular representatives should make students aware of evening midterms via a class note. Instructors should also note the …

Accurate Instructor Assignments

It’s important to review instructor assignments and accurately assign the correct people to classes in SIS. Every section of a course must have a principal instructor; some sections need a supervisory instructor; and auxiliary instructors may be assigned as needed. A decision tree provides detailed guidance.  Regardless of role, all instructors must hold an instructional …

Canceled Sections & Issuing Late Permissions

As part of the DIR tasks and reporting accurate instruction on campus the Office of the Registrar runs an administrative process to cancel class sections with no enrollment. This occurs during Week 5* of the Fall and Spring term, and includes IND sections. These canceled sections will remain visible in Curricular & Enroll Rep WorkCenter …

25Live Reminders & Tips

This week’s Pro Tip is actually several tips & reminders regarding our room reservation system 25Live. Many folx are continuing to adjust classrooms ahead of the Spring 2025 (1254) Final Call deadline on October 2, as well as submit special event requests for the Fall 2024 term, so we have some reminders about utilizing the …

You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers!

Good morning and welcome to another great Fall semester. The students are back and so are Pro Tips!  Curricular Services is here to assist you with any questions that you have about the work you do, but just who should you contact with those queries? When you have questions about building and maintaining your schedule …

Utilizing the Overscheduled Times by Subject Report

Increased demand on General Assignment (GA) classrooms at peak times is resulting in more and more classes not receiving a GA classroom assignment. Although not guaranteed, classes scheduled at standard times and when the subject is not overscheduled have a much greater likelihood of receiving a GA assignment. Per the campus Classroom Scheduling policy, “departments …

Enrolling in Courses After the Permission Deadline

The deadline to add a Spring 2024 course with department permission recently passed. Students who wish to add a Spring 2024 class or adjust credits of a variable credit course must seek academic dean approval via submission of a Course Change Request Form in their MyUW Student Center.

Update Combined Enrollment Capacities

Enrollment season is in full swing, which may eclipse (ha) your other duties for the moment. There are many combined sections in the Schedule of Classes, and it’s important to ensure accurate enrollment capacities. For all sections of a combined course, each subject will need to update their own sections’ enrollment caps.  The primary subject …

Review Courses with Variable Credit Ahead of Student Enrollment

Be sure to review courses with variable credit prior to student enrollment. Any courses that are approved for variable credit at the catalog will need to be scheduled accordingly and edited within Adjust Class Associations. Example: If a course is approved to be offered for 3-4 credits, but for the upcoming term it will only …